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Starter studios
Rebecca Farley profiles the Starter studios programme and looks at how six of the scheme’s previous artists were able to develop their careers.
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Next move
Heather Rigg profiles Next Move, a national professional development scheme which aims to launch the careers of applied artists.
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Artists’ product
Hilary Williams talks to four artists about how they have developed specific products. She learns about their initial motivation and inspiration, how they developed their ideas into production and what marketing strategies they employed for these particular products.
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Junko Mori
Despite graduating just two-and-a-half years ago, it is incredible how much metalsmith Junko Mori has managed to achieve in terms of reaching different markets and raising the profile for her work. In some ways she appears to be the very […]
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Copyright
As a UK artist you automatically hold copyright in your original works of art. This guide introduces the basic concepts of copyright law and offers practical advice on protecting your work against possible infringement.
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Safe working practice
Whilst safe working practice is largely a matter of common sense, it is also a legal and professional issue. This guide by David Pope introduces the key legislation and offers practical advice on risk assessment.
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Marketing
Marice Cumber introduces key marketing concepts for artists and offers advice to help target your marketing effectively.
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Setting up an event
A guide by Paul Stone on how to successfully plan, develop, manage and promote an artist-led event.
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Mapping Perception
Andrew Kötting is one of the UK’s most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only contemporary film-maker who could be said to have taken to heart the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman. Formally […]
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Cultural condition
Illustrating the approach she brings to her new role at [a-n], Gillian Nicol highlights some of the challenges and opportunities for artists and their practice today, looking broadly at education and employment, status and lifestyle and the impact of widening access to technology.
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Katie Holten
Usually I’m on the move. I have a tendency to spend between two days and two weeks somewhere and then move on.
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I’m DESPERATE… Love Me!!!
Catto Contemporary, London
10 January – 3 March
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Face to Face
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
11 January – 15 February
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Susanna Heron: Elements
Siân Bowen: Ream
11 January – 8 February
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Art For Dyslexics: Recent paintings by Damien Coyle
The Old Museum Arts Centre, North Belfast
10 January – 8 February
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Bad Quality
Millais Gallery, Southampton
10 January – 1 February
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Offline on tour
The UK/German company Uninvited Guests has almost completed its tour with Offline, a unique brand of performance and multimedia work combining hi- and low-tech, the visceral and the virtual. Material for Offline was gathered by wandering the web as electronic […]
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All that clusters…
Located in a ‘cultural industries’ area ourselves for the past three years, we can confirm that the advantages – creative networking and exchange, vibrant working environment, immediate access to like-minded cultural specialists, mutual support in development, etc – are there […]
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Barts art
A new commission from Julian Opie has launched redevelopment of the West Wing at Barts as a national Breast Care Centre of Excellence. Architects Greenhill Jenner’s proposal will create a contemporary, state-of-the-art medical facility with strong ‘patient appeal’ whilst celebrating […]
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New prize
Heralded as the north of England’s answer to the Turner Prize, the Comme ça Art Prize North aims to raise the profile of artists living and working beyond London. Worth £10,000 (against the Turner Prize of £20,000), the prize will […]
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Networking artists’ networks
An artists’ gathering will take place on 29/30 March in Manchester as part of a move by [a-n] THE ARTISTS INFORMATION COMPANY’s to support and enhance the networking of artists’ networks. This has been informed by recent surveys that have […]
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Light work
Photography, animation and video feature in an exhibition by emerging artists at London’s Pump House Gallery until 9 March. Recent Goldsmiths graduate Finnish artist Axel Antas seems to create something out of almost nothing. Dust, condensation, clouds and snow have […]
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Communications
Carolyn Black’s first time working away from her home and studio was a UNESCO funded residency in Java, Indonesia.
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Spy catcher
Lucy Harrison gives an account of a collaborative project in Tallinn, Estonia.
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To give is to receive
Becky Shaw describes how she negotiated the difference between the expectations of her work and the reality of her practice when she received a prestigious international art prize.